Comments on: Find your own Supernovae! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/08/13/find-your-own-supernovae/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:31:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Edge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/08/13/find-your-own-supernovae/comment-page-1/#comment-90990 John Edge Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:42:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/08/13/find-your-own-supernovae/#comment-90990 Hanny's voorwerp - great story from previous Galaxy Zoo work. A Dutch school teacher Hanny van Arkel spotted an unusual object in a galaxy photo (efforts then on classification of galaxies). She referred to this as a "voorwerp" which simply means "object" in Dutch. Turned out to be something really quite interesting astronomically - see links below. Genuine contribution to science by the public. Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanny's_Voorwerp Picture of the voorwerp on APOD http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080625.html Hanny’s voorwerp – great story from previous Galaxy Zoo work.

A Dutch school teacher Hanny van Arkel spotted an unusual object in a galaxy photo (efforts then on classification of galaxies). She referred to this as a “voorwerp” which simply means “object” in Dutch. Turned out to be something really quite interesting astronomically – see links below.

Genuine contribution to science by the public.

Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanny’s_Voorwerp

Picture of the voorwerp on APOD
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080625.html

]]> By: lake http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/08/13/find-your-own-supernovae/comment-page-1/#comment-90713 lake Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:49:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/08/13/find-your-own-supernovae/#comment-90713 Well, SN names are pretty boring, and you can never expect something as creative as “SN2009cosmicvariancereaders” ... Well, SN names are pretty boring, and you can never expect something as creative as “SN2009cosmicvariancereaders” …

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